A famed journal blacklist is dead. Long live a blacklist!

Jan 29, 2017

T he community of science watchdogs has lost an important voice with the sudden and mysterious takedown of a website devoted to outing unscrupulous publishers. The site, Scholarly OA (for “open access”), listed more than 1,000 so-called predatory journals and publishers – those that prey on unsuspecting researchers hoping to publish their work, then charge massive…